Glaciers dominate the high mountains above Saas-Fee, a large ski resort and mountaineering town. The town is built outside a large buffer zone from the glacial rivers of ice perched precariously above the Swiss village. Over the decades, it has also strategically placed avalanche fences, walls, canals, and even planted forests to help protect the town from massive snowfall, glacial debris and raging rivers streaming down from the mountain.
